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Diwali, also known as the Festival of Lights, is the biggest festival in the Hindu calendar and is celebrated in October or November each year. This year celebrations fall on Thursday 4th November. Here at 2Simple, we invite your class to be creative and get involved with these Purple Mash resources.

Purple Mash pictogram tool 2Count is a versatile tool that lets you create pictograms to represent all kinds of items, from favourite colours to foods eaten and everything in between, in just a few clicks.

Thanks to a recent update the tool just got even more powerful. This is how.

The World Health Organisation recognizes World Mental Health day on 10th October every year. This year's theme set by the World Federation for Mental Health is Mental Health in an Unequal World. There are a range of resources that schools and teachers can use to mark #WorldMentalHealthDay #WMHD2021.

Purple Mash’s graph and chart tool 2Graph just got a big update and we’re really excited about it. The new version is packed full of new functionality that lets children visualise and present data in a variety of colourful and exciting ways.

We are delighted to share with you some exciting updates and new features that have been added to our Computing Scheme of work. To further support the delivery in school, enhance the impact of lessons and reduce teacher workload, we have updated all lesson plans, included editable downloadable slideshows for every unit, included supporting videos for teachers, updated our knowledge organisers and included 21 brand new short videos explaining key computing terminology, all to ensure that you can teach computing with confidence.